Tag: body horror

currentsinbiology:

New species of frog from the Neotropics carries its heart on its skin

In the Neotropics, there is a whole group of
so-called glassfrogs that amaze with their transparent skin covering
their bellies and showing their organs underneath. A recently discovered
new species from Amazonian Ecuador, however, goes a step further to
fully expose its heart thanks to the transparent skin stretching all
over its chest as well as tummy.

The new amphibian is described by a team of scientists led by Dr.
Juan M. Guayasamin, Universidad San Francisco de Quito, Ecuador, in the
open access journal ZooKeys.

It can also be distinguished by the relatively large dark green spots
at the back of its head and the foremost part of the body.
Additionally, the species has a characteristic long call.

The new frog is named Hyalinobatrachium yaku, where the species name (yaku)
translates to ‘water’ in the local language Kichwa. Water and, more
specifically, slow-flowing streams are crucial for the reproduction of
all known glassfrogs.

Juan M. Guayasamin, Diego F. Cisneros-Heredia, Ross J. Maynard, Ryan L. Lynch, Jaime Culebras, Paul S. Hamilton. A marvelous new glassfrog (Centrolenidae, Hyalinobatrachium) from Amazonian Ecuador. ZooKeys, 2017; 673: 1 DOI: 10.3897/zookeys.673.12108

The new glassfrog species (Hyalinobatrachium yaku) in life. Credit: Jaime Culebras and Ross Maynard

freeindarkness:

So, I was pretty unhappy with the Luden’s facial design in my last concept post. He appeared too flat to me. This pushed me to try and add more color to him. Not intensely, but in a way that’s fleshy and almost organic, to contrast against his synthetic being~.

The synthetic hair, as well as the red tints, I thought, really gave him the organic appearance I was looking for. I also think it makes him appear more humane, but also more~… not~? If that makes any sense~.

I’m trying to develop my own aesthetic. I want to bring organic and synthetic together in a strange combination, that is both horrifying and pretty, in a strange way. I’m also really digging the color combination of white and red. It used to be one of my least favorite color combinations, but it turns out, if you do it right, it looks terrifically elegant~.

roscoewilde:

biscuitsarenice:

“Here in the Pacific, 200 metres down, we enter an alien world… This is barreleye a fish with a transparent head filled with jelly so that it can look up through its skull.” – Sir David Attenborough

Blue Planet II

most fish just grow their eyes on the sides of they head but okay

They do that because it lets them look up and spot fish that are silhouetted against the light coming from above, and because it gives them a really wide field of vision, but keeps their eyes tucked inside and protected. 

Source: biscuitsarenice

jayrockin:

As I threatened to, I have drawn a 4D horse. A hyperhorse, if you will.

When it runs, its hooves appear to flicker in and out of existence, each retaining the same tensile strength of a regular horse hoof attached to a regular horse leg, no matter how thin or small they are. In the hyperhorse’s vast and unknowable eyes, our bodies are like a sheet of paper, trapped within a single measly slice of 4D space like a specimen on a microscope slide.

PATREON | KO-FI

Source: jayrockin

gallusrostromegalus:

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daftalchemist:

did I ever mention that I know someone whose family owned a zombie dog because that’s some real shit that I get to delight with at parties

Tell us that story?

okay here is the story of the zombie dog

this dog’s name was John. they found him half drowned in a bag of puppies that were not so fortunate as he was, and was taken in immediately. he was a runt and not quite right (most likely from the whole half drowned thing), but a very loving dog. the problem with John was that he smelled like death, and no one knew why. vets couldn’t figure it out. it was obviously some kind of skin problem, but they had no idea what kind. all anyone knew was that if you touched him, you would smell like death too, so you couldn’t pet him, and that for some reason, the only thing that made the smell go away was being around other dogs. so they got another dog and the death smell stopped and John lived a very happy life

when he was getting old, maybe about 15 years, part of his skull caved in. just like that! suddenly had a huge dent in his head! and he was totally fine. didn’t notice it, didn’t affect him at all. just this massive dent right there in his head where his skull had collapsed in on his brain, and he was still the happiest and most loving dog. the skull cave in, for whatever reason, caused the ear on that side of his head to just fall off entirely, but again, perfectly happy dog who did not know he was down an ear and a fully formed skull. they took him to the vet, thinking maybe they should put him down. I mean, wouldn’t you think so? but the vet said that the dog was eating, and pooping, and happy, so there was no reason to put him down, so they didn’t

but that’s not even the weird part. the weird part is the area of the brain that got caved in on was apparently the area that registers pain, so this one-eared, collapsed skull dog could no longer feel any pain. he got old, his joints got stiff, his teeth rotted out of his head, his tongue hung out of his mouth and got black and hard, and he felt none of it! in fact, he was happier than he’d ever been feeling no pain, and the fact that he didn’t feel how much he was falling apart somehow made him live until he was 23. that’s right, the collapsed skull, one eared, zero teeth, smells like literal death when alone dog lived to be 23 years old. they used to joke that he’d been dead for years, but was too stupid to realize it yet

and that’s the story about the literal zombie dog my friend’s family owned

I’n simultaneously delighted, alarmed, a little horrified and impressed all at once.

@gallusrostromegalus

I love John The Zombie Dog so much.